Pentameris ellisii H.P.Linder

Tufted perennial; basal sheaths glabrous, not swollen; leaves cauline; glands on pedicels and glumes. Leaf blade 50-150 x 0.5-0.7 mm, rolled, sparsely long hairy; sheath mouth hairy. Inflorescence open, 50-100 x 40-60 mm, with 50-100 spikelets; axils hairy; pedicels densely glandular. Spikelet 5.5-6.0 mm long; glumes acute to acuminate, dark purple with yellow, upper margins densely glandular; lemma 2.5-2.8 mm long, sparsely hairy between keel and first nerves; lobes acute, lateral awns 2.0-2.5 mm long, exserted from glumes; central awn 7-8 mm long, tightly twisted basally, column and bristle of equal length; palea apex hairy, rest glabrous; anthers 3 mm long.